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Hello, it's Elizabeth here, and today I will be telling you about Social Sciences Unit 5, Lesson 1.

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So this is a little bit of an introduction of the unit, and the unit is called Spain in the Middle Ages.

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So first, I will be reading the Time Fact.

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So it's a little yellow box. It just starts off by giving you a little bit of information.

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All right, Time Fact.

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In the Middle Ages, life expectancy was about 35 years.

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People in the Middle Ages didn't know how to cure diseases that we can cure today.

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Many people also died of diseases like the Black Death.

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Okay, and then now I will be reading the blue box to the right of it.

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And it says,

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The Middle Ages began in 476 A.D. when the Roman Empire ended.

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At the beginning, there were many wars in Western Europe.

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This made it difficult for the merchants to travel, so trade decreased.

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Cities became smaller and many people moved to the countryside.

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Christianity became important in all aspects of life.

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Society was divided into three groups, the clergy, nobles, and peasants.

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During the Middle Ages, Spain didn't exist.

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There were Christian kingdoms in the north.

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In the south, there was a Muslim state called the Al-Andalus.

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We can find historical artifacts in both areas.

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Some artifacts are in museums.

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others are outside for example roads buildings and bridges they're important

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because they're part of our heritage we need to preserve them for future

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generations so also on this page there's a little timeline that you want to make

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sure to look at it goes through Roman Hispania the Visigothic Kingdom and then

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the Christian kingdoms and the Al-Andalus kingdoms. So make sure to look at that timeline

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too. All right. Thank you for listening. See you next time.